The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks applications for training and technical assistance to develop comprehensive strategies to respond to the overdose crisis and the impacts of opioid, stimulant, and othe substance use and misuse on individuals and families.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/18/2023
Size of the Grant: $3,500,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
OJP is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and builds trust between law enforcement and the community.
With this solicitation, BJA intends to select training and technical assistance (TTA) providers to form a collaborative to support the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use site-based Program (COSSUP). Providers will support states, tribes, and units of local government to plan, develop, and implement comprehensive efforts that identify, respond to, treat, and support those impacted by the use and misuse of opioids, stimulants, and other substances. The collaborative will be responsible for supporting more than 400 active COSSUP grantees and deliver TTA to tribal, state, and local justice and substance use treatment and public health agencies, recovery support organizations nationwide, and other communities impacted by the substance use epidemic. The TTA collaborative will work closely with a TTA coordination and demonstration provider who was selected in a prior solicitation and also oversees a repository of information on the online Resource Center. These providers will offer content for this repository.
Goals
The goal of the COSSUP TTA collaborative is to assist grantees and the field in reducing the impact of opioids, stimulants, and other substances on individuals and communities, including a reduction in the number of overdose fatalities, as well as to mitigate the impacts on crime victims by supporting comprehensive, collaborative initiatives.
Objectives
The selected TTA providers will assist BJA grantees in building their capacity to successfully accomplish the objectives of the overall program and the objectives of their specific grant-funded projects.
The selected TTA providers will enhance the quality and reach of services for the field through collaborative approaches with the other COSSUP-funded TTA providers to respond to requests from BJA, grantees, the field, and other federal agencies, as well as to support the online Resource Center to promote and advance the work of the COSSUP TTA providers.
Category 1: Training and Technical Assistance: National Support and Targeted Support for Specific COSSUP Grantees
- Category 1 a: National COSSUP Community Based Overdose Response and Services, and First Responder & Law Enforcement Deflection Training and Technical Assistance Program
- The objective of this program is to help local communities plan, implement, sustain, and enhance community-based overdose responses as well as initiatives led by law enforcement agencies or other first responders that respond to the overdose crisis, such as deflection and diversion.
- Category 1 b: National COSSUP Pretrial, Prosecution, Defense Counsel, and Courts Training and Technical Assistance Program
- The objective of this program is to help local communities divert justice-involved persons with substance use disorders to community-based treatment and develop or enhance programming and support services during the pretrial and court adjudication phases of justice processing. These efforts should focus particularly on support to prosecutors’ offices, defense counsel, court staff, pretrial agencies, and the judiciary.
- Category 1 c: National COSSUP Jails/Prisons, Reentry, and Community Corrections Training and Technical Assistance Program
- The objective of this program is to help local communities enhance services provided to pre- and post-trial populations in jails and post-trial in prisons with an emphasis on collaboration among courts, community corrections, and community-based substance use services agencies to implement or expand evidence-based substance use disorder treatment and recovery services, including, for example, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), for individuals during incarceration and continuing to support treatment and recovery efforts upon reentry and/or while under supervision in the community. The TTA provider should expect to support local or regional jails, prisons, and their partners in establishing a comprehensive approach to treating individuals with substance use disorders pre-release and working with community corrections and community-based partners to continue treatment services and recovery support services upon release to the community. The TTA provider should also expect to support partnerships and linkages with state agencies, including Medicaid agencies, to support access to treatment and continuity of services pre- and post-release.
- Category 1 d: COSSUP State-based Training and Technical Assistance Program
- The objective of this program is to facilitate strategic planning and provide direct support to state agencies receiving grant funds under all COSSUP site-based solicitations, as well as the local communities served by the state COSSUP projects. The selected provider will work with other COSSUP TTA providers or other subject matter experts to provide TTA to COSSUP statewide grantees.
Category 2: National Training and Technical Assistance: National Support and General Support of All COSSUP Grantees
- Category 2 a: Access to Treatment, Peer Recovery and Other Recovery Support Services Training and Technical Assistance Program
- The objective of this program is to prioritize support for COSSUP grantees and the field, including justice system agencies and their partners to increase access to evidence-based treatment, including MAT, and recovery support with a focus on peer recovery, as a component of successful community reintegration.
- Category 2 b: Data/Information Sharing and Research/Evaluation Support Training and Technical Assistance Program
- The objective of this program is to provide direct support to states and local COSSUP grantees to enhance data/information sharing, data translation and visualization, and research and evaluation methodologies (process/implementation/outcome/impact) to monitor and assess the implementation and progress of grant activities, and to guide community priorities.
Funding Information
- Category 1 a Community Based Overdose Response and Services, and First Responder & Law Enforcement Deflection: $3,500,000;
- Category 1 b Pretrial, Prosecution, Defense Counsel, and Courts: $2,000,000;
- Category 1 c Jails/Prisons, Reentry, and Community Corrections: $3,500,000;
- Category 1 d States: $3,000,000;
- Category 2 a Access to Treatment, Peer Recovery, and Other Recovery Support Services: $2,500,000;
- Category 2 b Data/Information Sharing and Research/Evaluation Support: $1,500,000
Project Period: 24 months
Eligible Applicants
- Private institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- For profit organizations other than Small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
